Haha! I live in Korea and have a daughter who was not-so-briefly completely obsessed with this movie. I know all of the words at this point. English and Korean. I didn’t mind at first. It’s starting to drive me a bit nuts, now. Also, it is some pretty blatant propaganda for the grist mill that is the Kpop industry. Despite the subtle nods to the contrary.

Lemon Toss?

Start exercising. Now. Doesn’t matter how old you are. Find the time. Doesn’t have to be a full blown gym habit, just consistent, makes-you-sweat exercise. It will never be easier to get in the habit.

Air quality. I moved from eastern Canada to southeast Asia. It’s always hazy here by comparison. And you can see like half the stars. There has been a little improvement in recent years. Maybe China is getting its shit together.

Exactly. AI will take any old random slob’s opinion and present it as fact.

Long ago, I’d make a Google search for something, and be able to see the answer in the previews of my search results, so I’d never have to actually click on the links.

Then, websites adapted by burying answers further down the page so you couldn’t see them in the previews and you’d have to give them traffic.

Now, AI just fucking summarizes every result into an answer that has a ~70% of being correct and no one gets traffic anymore and the results are less reliable than ever.

Make it stop!

Discord works absolutely fine in Linux. I use “Vesktop” which is a desktop client for Discord. Performance is identical to using the Discord app in Windows AFAIK.

The only “problem” with buying a nice mechanical keyboard is that you never need to buy another one.

My problem is that because of Linux I can almost never throw away an old computer. I’ve got a bloody netbook around here somewhere running Lubuntu.

In the first pictures, the knight would clearly be of the “upper” class. Your chances of being some peon in a field are much, much higher.

Yeah, the past twenty years have been a bit of a roller coaster ride watching what’s happening in NA. Ironically, I thought I’d be moving into a blatantly corrupt government basically run by crony capitalists. And yeah, Korea has its share of that, but wow, things out west have been falling apart horribly recently. South Korea seems to have its head on straight by comparison. Canada at least doesn’t seem to have fallen too far down the fascist rabbit hole, yet.

I’m sure this is referencing someone, but I have no idea who. Twitch is blocked in Korea.

Well, I now run my own (half-owned) school in one of the most beautiful places on the planet, work four days a week, 6 hours a day, and fund several hobbies, a nice house, and a gym habit. I can’t really complain. Maybe I’d have a more secure retirement working as a middle manager back home, but which one sounds like more of a career trap to you? Oh, and I can transfer my pension to Canada and go live there when I retire if I really want to.

I came to Korea from Canada in 2004 to teach English for a “year or two”. I’m still here. I have zero regrets, though I do wonder sometimes what my life would be life if I’d stayed in Canada.

Bocca Della Verita!!

Stick your hand in there and say something. If it’s a lie, lose your fingers.

I code Csound. It’s still sort-of being maintained, but otherwise the community is super dead. It’s a shame because it’s very versatile and fun, but realistically there are quite a few more modern alternatives for coding sound synthesis these days.

Imagine my surprise when I just now typed in fark.com and saw that it’s still there and it looks exactly like it did 25 years ago. Mind blown! I might even go back.

You Must Build a Boat is an RPG/match 3 hybrid with no shady shit. Pay once. Own the game. It’s pretty fun.

I tried to play through it recently. Game was OK, but fuck their stupid launcher. I want nothing to do with GTAO, so why do I have to load into its menu every single time I go to play the game and suffer through a bunch of ads to play a fucking single player game I paid for? I uninstalled about ten hours in. I might pirate it. It’s probably a better experience.

The one reason I have a nice, relatively new phone is that I want a fairly large, OLED screen for reading after dark. Yeah, I use it for a bunch of other stuff, but I wouldn’t really miss any of those. The only thing I really need is the ability to make it look like text is floating in the dark over my head in bed.